Me and my fellow DisBroads :Amy, Wendy and Patty at the 2013 Princess Half Registration for runDisney’s 2014 Princess Half Marathon Weekend including the Glass Slipper challenge opens for Annual Passholders, Disney Vacation Club Members and Disney Visa Card Holders on Thursday June 6th at noon. Open registration begins June 11th for everyone else! In […]
2013 Princess Post Race Celebration in the Land of Oz
The race ended with us heading back to Port Orleans for breakfast and showers. We had Lunch reservations at Le Cellier in Canada’s Pavilion at Epcot where we met up with Jenn from Pacebook Running Club who would be joining us. We celebrated with Steaks and Lobster Salad, Canada’s Finest Beers and wines – another […]
2013 Princess Half Race Report – THE BIG RACE, Chim Chim Cherree
Well its been a week now since I received my PHM Medal #3. Here’s how it went down….. We awoke at 2:30 to get dressed, suit up and make the 3:15 bus. I really wanted to avoid sitting in traffic this year and walking wall to wall in a shuffle to the start, so per […]
2013 Princess Half – The Race Dedication
Through a Facebook running group I am a member of, PbRC, I learned of RUN3rd. From the Run3rd Blog, “RUN3rd started out as an inspirational Twitter campaign of sharing race dedications made on behalf of people’s loved ones, causes and ideas and has grown to an international movement.” One of our PbRC admins is a […]
2013 Princess Half Weekend Day 3 – The Calm Before the Race
When you are staying on property and want to ride Toy Story Mania, you have to get to Disney Hollywood Studios when it opens to get a shorter wait in line or decent Fast Pass time as they go pretty quickly. We arrived at the Studios just at opening at 8am – for extra Magic […]
2013 Princess Half Part 2 – PreRace/Expo Day 2 Magical
Day 2 of our weekend was planned as such: 1. Magic Kingdom2. Expo3. PbRC Meet up for me4. Have a GREAT DAY! The temps in Orlando were rather hot – projected to get to 88. We were keeping an eye on the race day forecast because it appeared it would be hot and muggy and […]
2013 Princess Pre-Race Fun – Day 1 : The Princesses Have Arrived!
The best thing about doing a Disney race is well, you get a trip to Disney! For the 2013 Princess Half Marathon February 24th weekend, I would again be going with my friend Amy for a 3-peat. New comers Bonnie – a mom from the preschool I work at and Wendy a friend of mine […]
2011 Princess Half Part 5 – Post Race Par-Tay!
recap from 2011 Princess Half Marathon, post race party! Continued from Part 4, end of race recap here. After I got back to the lovely Swan Hotel, this place is awesome, I took a very cold bath to soak my legs and feet. It felt great. I then took a shower and discovered the chafing […]
The Year I Ran Injured 2011 Disney Princess 1/2 Marathon – Part 4 It’s the End of the Race as I know it
Final 2011 Princess Half Recap Installment 4 , continued from Part 3 here. After exiting the Castle tunnel I veered over to my left to wait in a line to get my pic taken….look how brilliant the light was…it was around 7 am at this point. THIS photo is what many do the race for! Yeah […]
2011 Princess Part 3 The Year I Ran Injured – “Have Fun Storming the Castle”
2011 Princess Half Recap continued from part 2…. As we passed over the starting line I hit the old start button on my long lost friend my Garmin to keep up with my pace on demand, cool huh! Since I had been injured, I wasn’t running outside and the old gal had not been used […]